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Hello and welcome to the B-side for episode 9 of our national conversation about conversations about race,

the comedy trumps fragility episode. I'm Raquel Sepeda here in Panop Please, New York Studios,

with my homey Barrett Tunday Thursday. Welcome back. What's up? We missed you. Yamas. It's good to be

back. So did you solve the austerity crisis? I mean, I think I delayed the inevitable future pain that's coming and was able to be a bit of a salve for the Greek people.

It was a good time.

All right.

And because Tanner Colby is out this week enjoying a well-deserved an overdue vacation with his family in the Berkshires.

I was actually saying the Berkshire's before because I didn't know how to pronounce it.

Sounds more like we're hobbits.

Yeah, exactly.

We have a special guest today sitting in for him, the extraordinary writer, author, political

and cultural analyst and critic, Farai Chidea.

Yeah. What up, Farai Chidea. Yeah.

Hello.

What up, Farai.

So happy to be here with you and have learned that you are preparing for a fight, Raquel.

You are, as mentioned last episode, the champion in the golden gloves in your division.

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